Purdue University has received a $10 million commitment from Gerald (BSCE '64, MBA '71) and Nanette Lyles for unrestricted support of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business.

Kumares C. Sinha, Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, presented his lecture titled "Next Generation Urban Transportation, Urban Living, and the Role of Tall Buildings" as part of Lehigh University's Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture Series.

Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Jinglin Jiang has received a 2023-2024 ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Grant-in-Aid Award, a $10,000 award given to outstanding graduate students conducting research in High Performance Buildings or HVAC fields.

Amit Varma, Purdue’s Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Bowen Laboratory, was part of the Purdue research to establish SpeedCore, an award-winning construction system.

Civil Engineering Ph.D. student Satya Sundar Patra has received a 2023-2024 ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Grant-in-Aid Award, a $10,000 award given to outstanding graduate students conducting research in High Performance Buildings or HVAC fields.

Purdue University engineers Dionysios Aliprantis, Nadia Gkritza, John Haddock and Steve Pekarek are testing technology they designed to enable electric vehicles to receive power from the road.

Ph.D. candidate Hazem Usama Abdelhady is the winner of the 2023 International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Scholarship for his dissertation research on Great Lakes shoreline changes in response to rapid water level fluctuation.

The Department of Energy has awarded a Purdue University team and Cummins, Inc., a $1.25-million grant to develop two action plans for zero-emission infrastructure along the I-80 Midwest corridor.

Emily Helmuth, CE undergrad and member of the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP), wrote this letter for the WIEP blog with advice for her younger sister Olivia, an incoming first-year engineering student this fall.

Congratulations to Professor Marika Santagata on receiving the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award for her passion in inspiring her students to build a better world.

THANK YOU! In just 24 hours, the Lyles School of Civil Engineering received nearly $4M in donations from our alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends. We are so incredibly thankful to everyone who supported us on Purdue Day of Giving!

The Lyles School of Civil Engineering's Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Graduate Program in Civil Engineering continues to be recognized as a top 10 graduate program in the country.

Yining Feng's research goal is to enable sustainable built environments and human-environmental health through multidisciplinary research into materials and related device technology.

CE alumni Erin Flanigan (BSCE 1987), Jalal Nafakh (BSCE 1983, MSCE 1984, PhD 1987). and Nancy Uridil (BSCE 1974) have been named recipients of the 2023 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award by the College of Engineering.

Phillip S. Dunston, Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean's Faculty Fellow for HBCU engagement, is the new director of the Office of Professional Practice (OPP) at Purdue University. The appointment was effective April 1, 2023.

Nadia Gkritza, Professor of Civil Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Engineering, has been appointed to the Transportation Energy Committee (AMS30) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Purdue University's Lyles School of Civil Engineering recognized five passionate, influential and visionary graduates during the 29th annual Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Awards banquet.

A team of researchers at Purdue University's Joint Transportation Research Program, including Director and engineering professor Darcy Bullock, investigated which rural areas would be the best candidates for electric vehicle chargers.

Purdue University researchers, led by Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering Darcy Bullock, have developed techniques to harness big data from connected vehicles to monitor congestion caused by crashes, weather and construction.

Luna Lu, the Reilly Professor and acting head of Purdue's Lyles School of Civil Engineering, will serve as associate dean of the faculty for the College, effective April 1.